In hurling, double-digit winning margin now almost as likely as close game

Mickey Harte’s side are odds-on favourites to make the jump to Division Two this weekend

All Star Wicklow footballer has his reservations about new competition

Returning Kerry manager believes his time with Kildare has improved him as a coach

‘I had a lot of heated moments where people thought I wasn’t going to make it’

Seán Flanagan was the last Mayo captain to lift the Sam Maguire in 1951

He capped a terrific week with winning score to secure Meath’s first title since 1992

We need to see how badly Kildare want real success. How much do they want an All-Ireland?

Andrew Omobamidele, Chiedozie Ogbene and Gavin Bazunu have Nigerian heritage

Former Waterford hurler Tom Walsh helped set up customs regimes in Europe and Africa

All-Ireland club champions in 1972, Derry club suffered dark days during Troubles

It’s not just the elite counties that are witnessing the retirement of loyal stalwarts

Former manager Pádraig Nolan feeling positive ahead of Leinster semi-final clash with Meath

37-year-old is the oldest active intercounty player after Dublin’s Stephen Cluxton

Division One will continue to hold secrets to rapidly approaching championship

2000 Leinster final replay was a special day for Lilywhites but a low point for Dublin

The 1992 Munster football final was to be one-way traffic but nobody told Clare

Alan Bradley goes far beyond football to look at the paradoxes that have run through Boylan’s life

Epochal hurling titles for Galway and Offaly and Kerry’s four-in-a-row rare highlights in a dark era

Hodson Bay group chairman John O’Sullivan oversees the opening of the new Hyatt Centric on old Viking territory in Dublin